prolixity | wordiness |
stakes | the consequences of the outcome |
woe | great sorrow or distress |
boisterous | (adj.) rough and noisy in a cheerful way; high-spirited |
visor | mask |
doth | do/does |
mire | mud; wet, swampy ground; a tough situation; to get stuck |
wits | Intelligence |
idle | Not active or in useinactive |
begot | Fathered |
bitterly | strongly and with a lot of bad feelings |
trencher | a wooden board or platter on which food served |
marchpane | Almond paste, marzipan |
dainty | preciously delicate or charming |
knaves | villains |
quench | to put out, extinguish, end |
ward | in the direction of |
foe | enemy |
disparagment | criticism, censure |
ill-beseeming | Unnatural |
cock-a-hoop | Adj; 1. triumphantly boastful: exultin |
scathe | to harm |
choler | Easily angered |
profan | unholy |
shrine | place of worship |
purged | cleansed of; freed from moral or ceremonial defilement |
trifling | Trivial, not very important; so small as to be unimportant; frivolous, shallow |
waxes | gets bigger |
hither | to here |
heir | a person legally entitled to the property or rank of another on that person’s death |
yond | over there |
prodigious | Enormous |
Romeo and Juliet Act 1, Scene 4-5 Vocabulary
December 8, 2019